Christmas at the beach! (She found a crab shell!) At some point in November, Charlotte came home from preschool with a laundry list of questions about Pere Noel (Father Christmas). I answered them as patiently and honestly as possible, which is →MORE...

The first time it happened, I thought my child was a genius. Charlotte had seen a food item she wanted - a bag of mixed nuts - and she had somehow retrieved it. But the more I thought about it, the →MORE...

As of yesterday evening, Evie has been earthside for five weeks. FIVE WEEKS! And the newborn fog that has been lingering around these parts is only now beginning to lift. Charlotte is CONSTANTLY hanging onesies “up to dry” by clothespinning them →MORE...

Shortly after Evelyn was born, my cousin came by my parents’ house for quality baby-meeting and toddler-adoring and dinner-eating time and she came bearing gifts for Charlotte. Namely, she came bearing a blue princess dress with a matching wand and crown →MORE...

Someday I will write my daughters’ birth stories. And I will write about breastfeeding during pregnancy. And I will write about tandem nursing in those first few days postpartum. And I will write about the difficulties I have encountered nursing Evelyn. →MORE...